Footnotes

• Contributors All authors contributed substantially to the conception, drafting, researching intellectual content and final approval of this manuscript to be published.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

• ↵i BC is defined as an individual defensive tactic designed to legally separate the puck carrier from the puck. This tactic is the result of a defensive player applying physical extension of the body towards the puck carrier moving in an opposite or parallel direction. The action of the defensive player is deliberate and forceful in an opposite direction to which the offensive player is moving and is not solely determined by the movement of the puck carrier.6